[googlemike]

From wikipedia:

From December 1942 until VJ-day there were relatively few enlistments into the armed forces as restrictions against the direct recruiting of men in the age group acceptable for service (18-37) were in effect. There were, however, 483,605 other enlistments into the Army and Navy during the period July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, but only 1.3 percent were African Americans. Although African Americans constitute approximately 11 percent of the population, aged 18 through 37, only 0.8 percent of Army enlistees and 1.4 percent of Navy enlistees during the period July 1, 1944, to June 30, 1945, were of that race.

So, sounds like the white part doesn't matter too much? Yes it was terrible that they were excluded from the GI bill, but only a very small fraction of soldiers in ww2 were black. It was very unlikely they would have made a difference in the outcome of such suburbs.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

You say it doesn’t matter, and then immediately say it was terrible. Which is it?

May have had an impact on those 6,286 African Americans who were excluded.

[AnimalMuppet]

Of course. And it's an just just as unjust if it only excludes one. And yet, it's a smaller injustice if it's only 0.8% than if it's 11%. As unjust, but a smaller injustice.

[rhizome]

It's a greater injustice that a minority had even the meager crumbs offered by the system stolen by white people kicking them while they're down.

You're focusing only on the raw numbers of people rather than the the effect on everybody of that community. You can bet if 10% of white people had the same discrimination visited upon them that police, lawyers, and legislation would be involved tout suite.

Read up on mortgage redlining during the most prosperous period of the 20th century keeping people out of the progress enjoyed by the majority. Injustice is not zero sum, don't use arguments from proportion when there is a fraught history and politics that makes continuing the discrimination much, much worse than if it was one white person against another white person.

[rhizome]

Were there any black people already in the military in Dec '42?